Alexander, Lord Loughborough Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain / [graphic]

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Title: Alexander, Lord Loughborough Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain / [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Northcote, James, 1746-1831, artist.
Jeffryes, John, active 1793-1804, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1800]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 1st Feby. 1800 by John Jeffryes, Ludgate Hill
Abstract: "Portrait, three-quarters length seated directed to left, looking towards the viewer, left elbow on the arm of his chair, his hand on the edge of his robes, right hand on the chancerial burse, propped on his knee, with the mace on a table beside him, wearing robes decorated with gold brocade, lace bands and long white wig; a column and curtain behind to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Description: Title etched below image.
State from: Baudi di Vesme, A. Francesco Bartolozzi.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on three sides.
For an earlier state with scratched production details only, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.1768.
Bound in opposite page 371 (leaf numbered '187' in pencil) in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Provenance: Formerly owned by R.B. Sheridan (the dramatist's grandson), who undertook the copious extra-illustration of the volumes. Later owned by Sheridan's descendant Lady Wavertree. Sotheby's, 25 May 1954 (Lady Wavertree sale), lot 266, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 50.8 x 36 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 4].
Language: English